Theatre
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A Twofer at Berkshire Theatre Group
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare
By: - Aug 21st, 2018An evening with Christopher Durang is never boring. These two one-act plays are hilarious and different. The first, The Actor's Nightmare, reminds us all of what it feels like to be lost - uncomfortable - amid many laughs and great performances. The second, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For Us, is a scathing, hilarious and extreme indictment of the force of any fundamentalist, controlling dogma. In this case, the Catholic Church and Sister Mary are its targets. All the performances are stellar.
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White Guy On The Bus
Southeastern Premiere of Bruce Graham Play
By: - Aug 21st, 2018White Guy On the Bus is an unflinchingly honest look at racism, perception, political correctness and other topics. A riveting southeastern premiere is playing at GableStage near Miami. The entire cast and crew create a tense filled evening of theater that you should not miss.
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The Tsar's Bride at Bard Summerscape
The Pleasures of Rimsky-Korsakov
By: - Aug 20th, 2018Bard Summerscape concluded its 2018 season with a production of The Tsar’s Bride by Rimsky Korsakov. Often performed in Europe, it is unfamiliar to most opera lovers in the United States, who received it with rapt admiration at the FIsher Center.
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Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally
A Fabulous Production at Shakespeare & Company.
By: - Aug 20th, 2018Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally, at Shakespeare & Company, is on the short list of finest productions of the Berkshire summer season. The well crafted play has been tightly directed by James Warwick. A superb cast is inspired by the pivotal, commanding performance by a living legend, Annette Miller. It's a hold onto your seat dense and devastating one act play.
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Doctor Atomic by John Adams
Santa Fe Opera House
By: - Aug 20th, 2018The Santa Fe Opera House is the perfect venue to stage John Adams’s compelling contemporary opera Doctor Atomic, about the creation of the atomic bomb. With a riveting and intellectual, but sometimes obtuse, libretto by Peter Sellars that is largely taken from historic documents, a story whose outcome we know is still tense and absorbing
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Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The opera is a play within a play. The “richest man in Vienna” has commissioned an evening’s spectacle at his manor for guests – a serious opera followed by a commedia dell’arte. It has been staged by Santa Fe Opera.
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The Brothers Khan by George Pfirrmann
Brotherhood at the Extremes
By: - Aug 18th, 2018In this era which has generated a nigh unprecedented displacement and resettlement of refugees, George Pfirrmann delves into the human conundrum of self definition buried in the frightening headlines of violence and despair.
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Candide by Voltaire with Bernstein’s Music
Sante Fe Opera Celebrates Composer’s Centennial
By: - Aug 18th, 2018From its inauspicious Broadway debut in 1956, Candide has led a checkered existence with revisions continuing through 1988. But, despite whatever flaws, it possesses wonderful music, is highly literate and stingingly political. Its real narrative weakness is that there is too much of it. The theme gets driven home too many times with repetitious vignettes that add little. That said, Santa Fe Opera commemorates the Leonard Bernstein centennial with a superior and visually spectacular production of this important work.
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West Side Story at Barrington Stage Company
Smash Hit Celebrates Bernstein's Centennial
By: - Aug 15th, 2018Barrington Stage Company produced West Wide Story eleven years ago and now celebrating the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein. In 2013 Barrington sents its production of Bernstein's On the Town to Broadway. With three productions in such a short span it's clear that artistic director, Julianne Boyd, views Bernstein as a bankable winner. Yet again, audiences agree with a sold out run in Pittsfield.
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Come To South Florida's Cabaret
Iconic Musical In Suburban Miami
By: - Aug 14th, 2018Area Stage Company's Cabaret reminds us of turmoil in today's world. Respected South Florida theater company scores a triumph with a vivacious mounting of Kander and Ebb's classic. ASC's interpretation of the 1998 Broadway revival runs through Aug. 26.
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Dangerous House by Jen Silverman
Powerful World Premiere at WTF
By: - Aug 12th, 2018Anchoring the season of Nikos Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival is Dangerous House a riveting social justice drama. It took years and multiple drafts for Jen Silverman to polish a harrowing play set during the World Cup in South Africa. It focuses on the systemic rape and murder of lesbians. There was indiffernce to these crimes in the black community on the part of government and the police.
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The Originalist at 59E59 Theaters
Una Lagrima Furtiva Hits Home
By: - Aug 12th, 2018Antonin Scalia is the subject of The Originalist, a powerful play by John Strand and directed by Molly Smith. It is presented by Middle Finger Productions in association with the Arena Stage and running at 59E59 Theaters. Edward Gero brings Scalia to life.
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Summer Shorts at 59E59 Theaters
Searching for Love
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Humor and pathos are gracefully layered in three shorts; The Plot by Claire Zajdel, Ibis by Eric Lane and Sparing Partner by Neil Labute. Crisply written and acted, all three plays convey a poignant sense of the parallel truths that inform our desire to love and be loved. Through religion, films, and the ever possible aspirations of our childhood remembrances, we create parallel truths that the characters ask us to indulge.
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Cabaret Artist Sydney Weisman Back Stage
Who Put the Chutzpah in Broadway?
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Cabaret artist Sydney Weisman provides a wonderful musical journey well worth listening to with songs written by the Royalty of Broadway: The Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, Frank Loesser, Kurt Weill, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a host of other iconic musical giants of Broadway’s music.
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Barefoot in the Park
Neil Simon at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - Aug 11th, 2018The author of some 60 plays, screenplays, and three novels over the years, Simon, at 91-years of age, still takes pen to paper (probably a yellow-lined legal pad). San Diego’s renowned Old Globe Theatre is currently staging one of Simons’ earlier, highly successful and blisteringly funny romantic comedy plays “Barefoot in the Park”; seamlessly and smartly directed by Jessica Stone.
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The Fabulous Lipitones in Pittsfield
By John Markus and Mark St. Germain
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Whitney Center for the Arts presents the Berkshire Premiere of The Fabulous Lipitones by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, a fully staged Musical, directed by Monica Bliss and Musical Director Jeff Hunt with Choreographer Ruslan Sprague, August 10-19th.
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Constellations Collide In South Florida
New City Players Closes Season with Nick Payne Play
By: - Aug 10th, 2018Ft. Lauderdale's New City Players concludes season with a mixed-bag production of Constellations.Actors are convincingly sweet, touching and argumentative in play about the multiverse and quantum mechanics. Skillful lighting and sound effects help make New City Players' production riveting.
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The Member of the Wedding
Williamstown Revises Carson McCullers Play
By: - Aug 10th, 2018It took five years for Carson McCullers to write the novel The Member of the Wedding published in 1946. She adapted it for stage with a January 5, 1950 Broadway opening and 501 performances. It was produced by Young Vic in London in 2007. It has been revised by Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Bridget Kibbey at The Angel's Share
A Unison Green-Wood Concert in Brooklyn
By: - Aug 09th, 2018Andrew Ousley continues to present top musical talent in unusual but intriguing settings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. On a dark and stormy night, an audience of new music appreciators were captivated by the prospect of whiskey in a cemetery followed by a walk through beautiful grounds and an ineffably beautiful concert in the Catacombs of the land marked Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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The Way the Mountain Moved
By Idris Goodwin at Oregon Shakespeare Festiva
By: - Aug 08th, 2018he Way the Mountain Moved is situated in Utah, a crossroads of the west and the state in which the eastbound and westbound building of track would meet in 1869. Leland Stanford would drive the golden spike of completion at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory in 1869.
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Mata Hari at West Edge Opera
By Matt Marks and Paul Peers
By: - Aug 08th, 2018Opera permits some amount of spoken dialogue, often resulting in a reclassification of the piece, as opera buffa or operetta. Here, the title character, Mata Hari, is a spoken role. Unfortunately, supertitles are not provided for the spoken word, and many details of the story are unnecessarily lost to audience members who can’t hear all of the dialogue clearly.
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Hand to God at TheatreWorks
Rude, Raunchy, and Riotously Funny
By: - Aug 08th, 2018The promotional material says that “you’ve been warned – This play is rated R for rude, raunchy, and riotously funny!” Certainly it is both of the first two; how funny you find it will depend on your sense of humor and your view about religious jokes
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Teatro Nuovo's Bel Canto at SUNY Purchase
Thunderbolts Out of the Blue
By: - Aug 07th, 2018Will Crutchfield’s Bel Canto operas were always a highlight of the Caramoor season. He has now moved to the Performing Arts Center at Purchase, which offers more space, closer to New York. His inaugural program unfolding over 10 days, offered a master class and smaller concerts interspersed with the semi-staged productions of three operas.
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The Only Opera by Claude Debussy
At West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 07th, 2018Claude Debussy’s only opera, the tragic Pelléas & Mélisande, is considered one of the most important 20th century operas and a highlight of French music. West Edge Opera has produced an absorbing realization with strong performances and simple but striking visuals in its home for this season, the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, California.
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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Revised Script of Popular Musical In South Florida
By: - Aug 06th, 2018West Palm Beach's MNM Theatre Company mounts an I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change for the 21st Century. The production's additions include a focus on technology in dating and updated cultural references. A vigorous quartet of performers prove multi-threats with their strong singing and acting.
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